Yeah, I'm going to sit down this or next weekend and just exercise my copy and paste muscles. I'm almost shocked that there isn't some well-devised HTML flush button to capture my life here since 2003. If there is one bright side, I was photodocumentarian for SGCT and really saved none of those photos. I'm happy to go back, collect them and now embarrass folks on FB. :)

Whoa.
I ton of folks that I friended back in 2005 and then lapsed just showed up as renewed.
I am guessing SG is trying to get people back with the new site launching through gifted subscriptions.
Like literally 15 people on my feed that just renewed.
And I know some of them don't even use the same email address anymore.

The first thing I saw when I logged on to My SG was someone's account has activated, so I posted a short "Hi" note before realizing that the top 30 things in the feed were old members' accounts being activated. It was boggling.

For real, what are other good community sites?
I know fetlife, but what else is out there?
I am just super curious.
Where else do people congregate?
I only know of SG, Twitter and FB (well besides the Fetlife above).
What else is there.

I truly cannot wait until the election is over.
I appreciate that we live in a free society that can express ourselves, and to be truthful I blame social media.
I have always had differing views than some friends and family and it was never a problem, since we all know most of the time one doesn't talk about religion or politics in a... Read More

This is why I vowed not to talk politics on social media until some point after the election. Some of the stuff that's floated through my stream has made it difficult to stick to that, but so far I've managed.

I am desperately trying to plan a last minute 4 or 5 day beach getaway.
So far I have looked at Bermuda (it is supposed to rain for like the next 10 days), Bahamas, West Coast of Florida (but don't know where to go there yet), Puerto Rico, and even Alabama (where they supposedly have amazing beaches).